No state of social good that does not mean the Citizen _choosing_ good, as well as getting it, has the idea of the Citizen at all.

To say the Germanies are naturally at war with this idea is merely to respect them and take them seriously: otherwise their war on the French Revolution would be only an ignorant feud.

It is this, to them, risky and fanciful notion of the critical and creative Citizen, which in 1870 lay prostrate under United Germany--under the undivided hoof.
Nevertheless, when the German says he has or loves freedom, what he says is not false.

He means something; and what he means is the second principle, which I may summarise as the Irresponsibility of Thought.
Within the iron framework of the fixed State, the German has not only liberty but anarchy.

Anything can be said although, or rather because, nothing can be done.